Hedge Fund Directory

Continuing the recent spate of not so positive publicity focussed on Hedge funds, Wall Street Journal has published another article “Hedge Funds Feel New Heat” on some of the recent news from the hedge funds and some prediction on the trends(To read complete article, visit www.wsj.com).
The return for the hedge funds in general have taken [...]

It is being reported that the new hedge fund by Goldman Sachs has faced rough weather in January 2008. From the report on dealbreaker.com,
“The fund is down 6% for January, according to a source familiar with the results. Goldman Sachs Investment Partners fund recently raised $7 billion, according to a report in the Financial [...]

As we start 2008, it is always interesting to take stock of developments so far, and see if some clear trends are visible for the near future. We ourselves keenly watched the predictions made by others about the hedge fund industry. So it was quite interesting to see the article “Predictions for hedge funds” in [...]

One of the trends in Hedge fund industry we have frequently highlighted is about big hedge funds getting bigger in coming year as investors are willing to sacrifice some returns for reduced risk and stability.
A Bloomberg article reported that as of June 30th 2007, there were 246 funds with more than $ 1 billion in [...]

Here are the top 10 Hedge Fund Trades of 2007 as analyzed by Dow Jones Hedge Fund Trades Announces Annual List of Best, Boldest Hedge Fund Moves.
Turns out much as expected – Commodities, Alternative Energy and Industrials were the best performers.
Here are the toppers:

Atticus Management made $800 million on its holdings of Freeport McMoran.
Pershing Square [...]

In our previous posts, we covered how hedge funds have had it tough over last few months. As the year draw to close, it is useful to take a look back. 2007 was a mixed bag for the hedge funds.

On one hand, hedge funds are getting more investments with the larger funds being especially favoured [...]

A successful career in Hedge Funds brings in tremendous financial rewards in pay and compensation. While the number of hedge fund companies hiring people is relatively less, current and future opportunities look quite optimistic. In this note, we will share our findings on the hedge fund salaries.
The global hedge fund industry [...]

The article titled “Big hedge funds get bigger” on September 12, 2007 gives yet another estimate on the size of the hedge fund industry and the number of hedge funds in existence today. Though there is no single authorized source of information about Hedge Funds, it is helpful for the observers to keep track of [...]

Hedge Funds have been in news quite frequently over the last few months. Mostly the news coverage has been of speculative nature with regards to their role in the rough weather experienced by financial markets all around the world. It is quite natural considering their intrinsic nature. These are the funds which have more then [...]

In the hedge fund industry it is not what you know, it is not who you know. It is who knows you.
MPC Investors is a $3B hedge fund based in London. Last month they raised $900M to launch a pan-European directional long/short fund. This was while a higher than usual number of funds were losing [...]